Bug#35061: dpkg: dselect does not work with arrow keys in console

[bma@debian.org]

Package: dpkg
Version: 1.4.1.1

Up and down arrow keys do not work in dselect in console, under bash or tcsh, with TERM set to linux.

-- System Information
Debian Release: potato
Kernel Version: Linux terminus 2.2.3 #2 Wed Mar 10 17:15:50 EST 1999 i586 unknown

Versions of the packages dpkg depends on:
ii  libc6           2.1.1-0.1      GNU C Library: shared libraries
ii  libncurses4     4.2-3.2        Shared libraries for terminal handling
ii  libstdc++2.9    2.91.61-1      The GNU stdc++ library (egcs version)